Hadley loses 'vile woman' defamation case

Radio host Ray Hadley has lost a defamation case brought against him by a woman he dubbed "vile" and "a grub".

The 2GB broadcaster had also described the claimant, Sydney shop owner Kim Anne Ahmed, as a "silly, silly woman" and said she should be put out of business.

Mrs Ahmed sued Harbour Radio, which operates 2GB.

Hadley had directed the comments, broadcast in 2008 and 2009, at Mrs Ahmed because she had stood by her sex offender husband and because she had taken out an AVO against the young victim's father.

The husband, Emran Ahmed, was convicted in July 2007 of aggravated indecent assault over an incident in which he forced himself on a 17-year-old girl who had just begun working at their fish-and-chip shop in Carlingford, in Sydney's northwest.

He received a 12-month good behaviour bond.

The shop went out of business just over a year later, in October 2008.